Perforce Delphix up to 2025.2.0.0 User Account privilege chaining

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Perforce Delphix up to 2025.2.0.0. This affects an unknown part of the component User Account Handler. Such manipulation leads to privilege chaining. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2025-2903. The attack can be executed directly on the physical device. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in Perforce Delphix up to 2025.2.0.0 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component User Account Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privilege chaining vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-268. Two distinct privileges, roles, capabilities, or rights can be combined in a way that allows an entity to perform unsafe actions that would not be allowed without that combination. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

An attacker with knowledge of creating user accounts during VM deployment on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using the OS Login feature, can login via SSH gaining command-line control of the operating system. This allows an attacker to gain access to sensitive data stored on the VM, install malicious software, and disrupt or disable the functionality of the VM.

The advisory is shared for download at portal.perforce.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-2903 since 03/28/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. Additional levels of successful authentication are needed for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Perforce

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• Delphix

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• 2025.2.0

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